Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Traits of happy people Date:   5/26/2021 8:43:55 AM

Same holds for people believed to be "lucky".  Best definition I've seen of luck is when preparation and hard work meets opportunity.  To me the most important of these traits are the ones about being a victim, looking to others for happiness and faith.  Frankly, if you have all the others and not these three you will still likely be a miserable, angry, unhappy person. 

Victimhood is rampant today as it is the neo-Marxist approach to class struggle in this country which they hope leads to revolution. Instead of it being a struggle between economic classes (which doesn't work in the U.S. for obvious reasons) they try to make it a struggle between the victim and the oppressor, whether it is race, sexual orientation, gender or whatever intersectional idea they can muster up.  There is literally nothing new under the sun when it comes to this failed ideology.

Looking to others for your happiness is likewise a fools errand.  Failed, broken humanity will always disappoint you at some point.  And if you are looking to someone else to make you happy and they drop the ball, which they always do, you will be back to square one.  People, circumstances, events and the like can only influence your happiness if you let it.

And of course some form of faith is essential because it gives a person hope.  If you lack hope there is no way to be happy.  No way to deal with the ups and downs of every day life, the crosses we have to carry, the tragedies and disappointments.  All these things are a part of life and in my opinion the only way to be able to bear them is with faith.  Otherwise people try to escape them with drugs (legal and illegal), alcohol (not that there's anything wrong with martini's), etc.